ESI Foliation Program
Week of September 30 - October 4, 2002

Seoung-Dal Jung talks about bounds of the square of the first eigenvalue of the transversal Dirac operator on Riemannian foliations

Sebastian Goette talks about higher analytic torsion defined on fiber bundles, invariants that are able to distinguish between diffeomorphism types of fiber bundles. See his preprints .

Izu Vaisman lectures on Hamiltonian structures on foliations.
See his preprint .

Peter Michor talks about flow completions of infinite dimensional manifolds and using them to study partial diffferential equations.

At lunch at Landsknecht: S. Goette, P. Piazza, J. Lee, S-D Jung, H. Moriyoshi, I. Vaisman

I. Vaisman with his big rib plate, as P. Michor looks on.

After lunch: P. Piazza, S-D Jung, S. Goette, F. Kamber, K. Richardson, I. Vaisman, P. Michor

J. Lee reads about symplectic geometry.

At cookie time: P. Michor, F. Kamber, J. Lee